On The Very Edge: Modernism and Modernity in the Arts and Architecture of Interwar Serbia (1918–1941) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9058679934 ISBN 13: 9789058679932

Publisher: Leuven University Press, 2014

Synopsis

Revealing a vibrant and intertwined artistic scene in the Balkans. On The Very Edge brings together fourteen empirical and comparative essays about the production, perception, and reception of modernity and modernism in the visual arts, architecture, and literature of interwar Serbia (1918–1941). The contributions highlight some idiosyncratic features of modernist processes in this complex period in Serbian arts and society, which emerged ‘on the very edge’ between territorial and cultural, new and old, modern and traditional identities. With an open methodological framework this book reveals a vibrant and intertwined artistic scene, which, albeit prematurely, announced interests in pluralism and globalism. On The Very Edge addresses issues of artistic identities and cultural geographies and aims to enrich contextualized studies of modernism and its variants in the Balkans and Europe, while simultaneously re-mapping and adjusting the prevailing historical canon.

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About the Authors

Jelena Bogdanović is an Assistant Professor of Architectural History at Iowa State University.

Lilien Filipovitch Robinson is Professor of Art History at the George Washington University.

Igor Marjanović is an Associate Professor of Architecture at Washington University in St. Louis.

From the Back Cover

Revealing a vibrant and intertwined artistic scene in the Balkans.
'On the Very Edge' brings together fourteen empirical and comparative
essays about the production, perception, and reception of modernity and
modernism in the visual arts, architecture, and literature of interwar Serbia
(1918-1941). The contributions highlight some idiosyncratic features of
modernist processes in this complex period in Serbian arts and society,
which emerged 'on the very edge' between territorial and cultural, new
and old, modern and traditional identities.
With an open methodological framework this book reveals a vibrant and
intertwined artistic scene, which, albeit prematurely, announced interests
in pluralism and globalism. 'On the Very Edge' addresses issues of artistic
identities and cultural geographies and aims to enrich contextualized studies
of modernism and its variants in the Balkans and Europe, while simultaneously
re-mapping and adjusting the prevailing historical canon.

Edition details

• Publisher: Leuven University Press
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9058679934
• ISBN 13: 9789058679932
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 370
• Editor: Bogdanovic Jelena, Filipovitch Robinson Lilien, Marjanovic Igor